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<span id="streams-developer-guide-execution"></span><h1>Running Streams Applications<a class="headerlink" href="#running-streams-applications" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
<p>You can run Java applications that use the Kafka Streams library without any additional configuration or requirements.</p>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#starting-a-kafka-streams-application" id="id3">Starting a Kafka Streams application</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#elastic-scaling-of-your-application" id="id4">Elastic scaling of your application</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#adding-capacity-to-your-application" id="id5">Adding capacity to your application</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#removing-capacity-from-your-application" id="id6">Removing capacity from your application</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#state-restoration-during-workload-rebalance" id="id7">State restoration during workload rebalance</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#determining-how-many-application-instances-to-run" id="id8">Determining how many application instances to run</a></li>
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          <span id="streams-developer-guide-execution"></span><h1>Running Streams Applications<a class="headerlink" href="#running-streams-applications" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
          <p>You can run Java applications that use the Kafka Streams library without any additional configuration or requirements. Kafka Streams
              also provides the ability to receive notification of the various states of the application. The ability to monitor the runtime
              status is discussed in <a class="reference internal" href="../monitoring.html#streams-monitoring"><span class="std std-ref">the monitoring guide</span></a>.</p>
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              <p class="topic-title first"><b>Table of Contents</b></p>
              <ul class="simple">
                  <li><a class="reference internal" href="#starting-a-kafka-streams-application" id="id3">Starting a Kafka Streams application</a></li>
                  <li><a class="reference internal" href="#elastic-scaling-of-your-application" id="id4">Elastic scaling of your application</a><ul>
                      <li><a class="reference internal" href="#adding-capacity-to-your-application" id="id5">Adding capacity to your application</a></li>
                      <li><a class="reference internal" href="#removing-capacity-from-your-application" id="id6">Removing capacity from your application</a></li>
                      <li><a class="reference internal" href="#state-restoration-during-workload-rebalance" id="id7">State restoration during workload rebalance</a></li>
                      <li><a class="reference internal" href="#determining-how-many-application-instances-to-run" id="id8">Determining how many application instances to run</a></li>
                  </ul>
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              <span id="streams-developer-guide-execution-starting"></span><h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id3">Starting a Kafka Streams application</a><a class="headerlink" href="#starting-a-kafka-streams-application" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
              <p>You can package your Java application as a fat JAR file and then start the application like this:</p>
              <div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="c1"># Start the application in class `com.example.MyStreamsApp`</span>
<span class="c1"># from the fat JAR named `path-to-app-fatjar.jar`.</span>
$ java -cp path-to-app-fatjar.jar com.example.MyStreamsApp
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              <p>For more information about how you can package your application in this way, see the
                  <a class="reference internal" href="../code-examples.html#streams-code-examples"><span class="std std-ref">Streams code examples</span></a>.</p>
              <p>When you start your application you are launching a Kafka Streams instance of your application. You can run multiple
                  instances of your application. A common scenario is that there are multiple instances of your application running in
                  parallel. For more information, see <a class="reference internal" href="../architecture.html#streams_architecture_tasks"><span class="std std-ref">Parallelism Model</span></a>.</p>
              <p>When the application instance starts running, the defined processor topology will be initialized as one or more stream tasks.
                  If the processor topology defines any state stores, these are also constructed during the initialization period. For
                  more information, see the  <a class="reference internal" href="#streams-developer-guide-execution-scaling-state-restoration"><span class="std std-ref">State restoration during workload rebalance</span></a> section).</p>
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              <span id="streams-developer-guide-execution-scaling"></span><h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id4">Elastic scaling of your application</a><a class="headerlink" href="#elastic-scaling-of-your-application" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
              <p>Kafka Streams makes your stream processing applications elastic and scalable.  You can add and remove processing capacity
                  dynamically during application runtime without any downtime or data loss.  This makes your applications
                  resilient in the face of failures and for allows you to perform maintenance as needed (e.g. rolling upgrades).</p>
              <p>For more information about this elasticity, see the <a class="reference internal" href="../architecture.html#streams_architecture_tasks"><span class="std std-ref">Parallelism Model</span></a> section. Kafka Streams
                  leverages the Kafka group management functionality, which is built right into the <a class="reference external" href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/A+Guide+To+The+Kafka+Protocol">Kafka wire protocol</a>. It is the foundation that enables the
                  elasticity of Kafka Streams applications: members of a group coordinate and collaborate jointly on the consumption and
                  processing of data in Kafka.  Additionally, Kafka Streams provides stateful processing and allows for fault-tolerant
                  state in environments where application instances may come and go at any time.</p>
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                  <h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id5">Adding capacity to your application</a><a class="headerlink" href="#adding-capacity-to-your-application" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h3>
                  <p>If you need more processing capacity for your stream processing application, you can simply start another instance of your stream processing application, e.g. on another machine, in order to scale out.  The instances of your application will become aware of each other and automatically begin to share the processing work.  More specifically, what will be handed over from the existing instances to the new instances is (some of) the stream tasks that have been run by the existing instances.  Moving stream tasks from one instance to another results in moving the processing work plus any internal state of these stream tasks (the state of a stream task will be re-created in the target instance by restoring the state from its corresponding changelog topic).</p>
                  <p>The various instances of your application each run in their own JVM process, which means that each instance can leverage all the processing capacity that is available to their respective JVM process (minus the capacity that any non-Kafka-Streams part of your application may be using).  This explains why running additional instances will grant your application additional processing capacity.  The exact capacity you will be adding by running a new instance depends of course on the environment in which the new instance runs: available CPU cores, available main memory and Java heap space, local storage, network bandwidth, and so on.  Similarly, if you stop any of the running instances of your application, then you are removing and freeing up the respective processing capacity.</p>
                  <div class="figure align-center" id="id1">
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                      <p class="caption"><span class="caption-text">Before adding capacity: only a single instance of your Kafka Streams application is running.  At this point the corresponding Kafka consumer group of your application contains only a single member (this instance).  All data is being read and processed by this single instance.</span></p>
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                      <img class="centered" src="/{{version}}/images/streams-elastic-scaling-2.png">
                      <p class="caption"><span class="caption-text">After adding capacity: now two additional instances of your Kafka Streams application are running, and they have automatically joined the application&#8217;s Kafka consumer group for a total of three current members. These three instances are automatically splitting the processing work between each other. The splitting is based on the Kafka topic partitions from which data is being read.</span></p>
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                  <h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id6">Removing capacity from your application</a><a class="headerlink" href="#removing-capacity-from-your-application" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h3>
                  <p>To remove processing capacity, you can stop running stream processing application instances (e.g., shut down two of
                      the four instances), it will automatically leave the application’s consumer group, and the remaining instances of
                      your application will automatically take over the processing work. The remaining instances take over the stream tasks that
                      were run by the stopped instances.  Moving stream tasks from one instance to another results in moving the processing
                      work plus any internal state of these stream tasks. The state of a stream task is recreated in the target instance
                      from its changelog topic.</p>
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              <div class="section" id="state-restoration-during-workload-rebalance">
                  <span id="streams-developer-guide-execution-scaling-state-restoration"></span><h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id7">State restoration during workload rebalance</a><a class="headerlink" href="#state-restoration-during-workload-rebalance" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h3>
                  <p>When a task is migrated, the task processing state is fully restored before the application instance resumes
                      processing. This guarantees the correct processing results. In Kafka Streams, state restoration is usually done by
                      replaying the corresponding changelog topic to reconstruct the state store. To minimize changelog-based restoration
                      latency by using replicated local state stores, you can specify <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">num.standby.replicas</span></code>. When a stream task is
                      initialized or re-initialized on the application instance, its state store is restored like this:</p>
                  <ul class="simple">
                      <li>If no local state store exists, the changelog is replayed from the earliest to the current offset. This reconstructs the local state store to the most recent snapshot.</li>
                      <li>If a local state store exists, the changelog is replayed from the previously checkpointed offset. The changes are applied and the state is restored to the most recent snapshot. This method takes less time because it is applying a smaller portion of the changelog.</li>
                  </ul>
                  <p>For more information, see <a class="reference internal" href="config-streams.html#num-standby-replicas"><span class="std std-ref">Standby Replicas</span></a>.</p>
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                  <h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id8">Determining how many application instances to run</a><a class="headerlink" href="#determining-how-many-application-instances-to-run" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h3>
                  <p>The parallelism of a Kafka Streams application is primarily determined by how many partitions the input topics have. For
                      example, if your application reads from a single topic that has ten partitions, then you can run up to ten instances
                      of your applications. You can run further instances, but these will be idle.</p>
                  <p>The number of topic partitions is the upper limit for the parallelism of your Kafka Streams application and for the
                      number of running instances of your application.</p>
                  <p>To achieve balanced workload processing across application instances and to prevent processing hotpots, you should
                      distribute data and processing workloads:</p>
                  <ul class="simple">
                      <li>Data should be equally distributed across topic partitions. For example, if two topic partitions each have 1 million messages, this is better than a single partition with 2 million messages and none in the other.</li>
                      <li>Processing workload should be equally distributed across topic partitions. For example, if the time to process messages varies widely, then it is better to spread the processing-intensive messages across partitions rather than storing these messages within the same partition.</li>
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